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Expert in Aerospace, Offshore Oil, Electronics, Ocean Engineering: Management, Team Building, Technology
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team building expert
business management expert |
Expert provides consulting services in management, team building, technology, and marketing. He helps organizations develop operational and technical improvements and innovations, tailored to their unique circumstances, which significantly increase their competitiveness, teamwork, profitability, productivity, and survivability. He has established an excellent record of achievement in a career covering more than 35 years as a consultant, executive, manager, and engineer. He has been consulting since 1983, working with a wide variety of organizations. His formal training includes a degree in mechanical engineering, with additional training in management, systems engineering, marketing, finance, and communications. His technical experience includes ocean engineering, structural dynamics, instrumentation and test, systems engineering, missiles, spacecraft, offshore oil and gas, and the design, development and evaluation of new products. He holds five U.S. patents related to this work. |
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ocean engineering expert
offshore marine terminal expert
offshore structure expert |
Expert has been responsible for R&D, new product development, proposals, cost estimates, economic trade-offs and engineering in this area. He has four patents related to this work, which he has performed as an independent consultant and as a senior manager for a leading international supplier of offshore terminals. Examples of structures that he is familiar with include single point mooring (SPM) Systems, spar floating production systems floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) systems, and tensioned buoyant towers. |
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structural dynamics expert
vibration expert |
Expert's work has included shock and vibration measurement, analysis and test, as well as environmental stress screening methods and equipment. He is the co-inventor of a patent related to vibratory pile driving and extraction. |
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proposal expert |
Expert is familiar with overall preparation of proposals, including concept development, technical approaches, scheduling, cost estimating, presentation of company qualifications, and life cycle cost models. He developed teaming arrangements and implemented efficient techniques for the preparation and review of proposals, including information modules and storyboards. In addition, he gave proposal presentations and negotiated contracts. |
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operations expert
quality improvement expert |
Expert has worked with improvement teams to plan, develop and implement design improvements, cost reductions, and cycle time reductions. He has helped companies gain competitive advantage through process reengineering, concurrent engineering, and other techniques. His successes include cost and cycle time improvements, cost savings in millions of dollars, and the development of patentable technology. |
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continuous quality improvement expert |
Expert provides consulting services in management, team building, engineering, and marketing for technology and manufacturing companies. He has worked with clients to develop operational, cultural, and technical improvements that significantly increased their competitive strength and survivability. Typical assignments that he has completed include assisting with the development of improvement projects; assessing and mapping business processes; facilitating improvement teams; coaching teams on effective improvement techniques; and helping evolve and implement critical changes. |
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total quality management expert
integrated product development expert
value engineering expert
cost reduction expert |
By developing process models in the above areas, Expert has helped several companies increase their competitiveness, teamwork, profitability, and survivability. For example, he helped a growing small company reduce their new product release time from a range of 18-24 months to less than 10 months. He also helped a large, mature company save over $8 million in production costs. |
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Localities:
Expert may consult nationally and internationally, and is also local to the following cities: Los Angeles, California; Long Beach, California; Santa Ana, California; Anaheim, California; Riverside, California; Bakersfield, California; Glendale, California; Huntington Beach, California; San Bernardino, California; and Oxnard, California.
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1961
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B.S.
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Mechanical Engineering
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City College of New York
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1983 to
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(Undisclosed Consulting Company)
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President
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Expert's firm specializes in assisting with improvements and innovations in management, technology, and marketing.
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1977 to 1983
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Applied Research, Inc.; InterOcean Systems; IMODCO Inc.
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Vice President/Operations Director
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1961 to 1977
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Mechanics Research Inc.; Hughes Aircraft Co.; American Bosch Arma Corp.
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Engineering, Management and Marketing
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Associations/Societies
Expert has numerous professional affiliations. Among them are the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology, the G-5 Committee of Aerospace Shock and Vibration, and the American Bureau of Shipping's Committee on Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion. He is also a former member of the API Riser Committee.
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Professional Appointments
He is a former Chairman of the Oceanographic Instrumentation Committee of the Marine Technology Society.
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Publications and Patents
Expert has five U.S. patents to his name and over a dozen publications.
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2000 to 2001
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NASA
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Consultant
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Expert assisted with strategic planning activities for the ESD branch at Glenn Research Center.
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Expert used his management experience to help an engineering and manufacturing company reduce new product release time from 18-24 months to less than 10 months. He also implemented effective teamwork, process mapping, and other techniques that resulted in permanent improvements in workflow, communications, and meetings.
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He used his technical skills to resolve the ambiguities in production test specifications, suggested modifications to meet the same needs at lower costs, and helped implement the changes. The program ultimately saved more than $8 million.
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Expert has supported strategic planning and long-range planning for large and small organizations. Additionally, he has assisted with plan development, review, recommendations, market assessments, forecasts, growth strategies, business plans, staffing strategies, integrated planning, and business process improvement.
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He coached and guided several design improvement teams. As a result, dozens of innovations were implemented. His work led to exceeding targets of 25% improvements in costs and cycle time, while maintaining high quality.
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Expert developed engineering and cost models that helped illustrate the benefits of new products.
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As a member of the Intota consultant network,
Expert is a specialist who provides technical consulting to corporate, legal and government clients. Expert provides professional consulting as an Aerospace Consultant, Offshore Oil Consultant, Electronics Consultant, Ocean Engineering Consultant: Management Consultant, Team Building Consultant, Technology Consultant. Expert may consult as an independent consultant or as a member of a consultancy, consulting company,
or consulting firm. Consultants service will be covered by a consulting contract.
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and forensic testing if appropriate in litigation areas as an Aerospace Expert Witness, Offshore Oil Expert Witness, Electronics Expert Witness, Ocean Engineering Expert Witness: Management Expert Witness, Team Building Expert Witness, Technology Expert Witness.
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Argentina
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Expert provided assessments and recommendations regarding the privatization of offshore marine terminals for YPF, the national oil company of Argentina.
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He has experience providing market assessment and surveys for his clients. He is also adept at assisting with marketing plans, sales projections, proposal development and presentations, cost models and estimates, sales literature, and defining product benefits.
Expert serves as a resource to
Intota Market Research Services
for customized marketing research in industries or areas related to
Aerospace, Offshore Oil, Electronics, Ocean Engineering: Management, Team Building, Technology.
Experts are an invaluable source of overall industry insight as well as insight into specific companies and firms for
custom business to business (b2b) and industrial market research. Intota uses analyst and
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and quantitative data as well as report writing for the custom studies. The methods and tools
used by Intota market research combine the insights of technical experts and industry insiders with secondary
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Training/Seminars
Expert has given the workshop, "Service, Survival, and Longevity," an interactive training that examines how one's organization is going to: increase one's focus on serving the needs of customers; survive turbulent times and increased competition; and maintain longevity and continue to succeed into the future. Participants learn about relevant processes and models, and interact in brainstorming and idea development sessions. Additional interactive seminars include: "Fast, High Quality Decisions and Results," "How Teams and Companies Win," and "Fast, High Quality Proposals".
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Other Skills and Services
He organized and facilitated process improvement and team building sessions for units of two major crime labs, as part of rapid renewal programs. He worked with the labs' forensics experts to help increase through-put in the areas of crime scene investigation, fingerprints, and DNA analysis. The work resulted in practical road maps for achieving significant operating improvements while balancing quality, speed, and economy.
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